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Show HN: I built a daily, "Family Feud" style game

https://toptake.today
1•hansy•4h ago
Hey HN, I built a little game to test out a few technologies I wanted to try out. The object of the game is simple: find the most common answers to a prompt.

How it works:

- player first sees a "warmup" question; this is just a prompt for a future date; I collect answers for the question to feed into an LLM to generate the answers for it

- player moves onto actual game, trying to guess the most common answers; every user submission goes to the LLM to determine how similar it is to the predefined buckets/answers

Some interesting learnings while building this:

- the LLMs do a pretty decent first pass (both in creating the answers and judging them), however the last 20% of work is some serious fine-tuning to avoid hallucinations, strange inconsistencies, etc

- the answer creation LLM has a tough job; it has to take the responses and create workable buckets that (a) aren't too broad and (b) are different from each each, which is surprisingly challenging; It employs pair-wise cosine similarity (how similar two vectors points are to each other) and Jaccard similarity (how similar two sets of data are to each other); still lots of work to be done here as I still see buckets that are too encompassing and share sizable overlap with other buckets

- the judging LLM has answer normalization rules (e.g. plural -> singular, strip special characters, handle typos via Levenshtein distance, etc) and matching logic using cosine similarity plus determining if a guess is hypernym or hyponym in relation to the bucket -> we want answers to be more specific (e.g. guess == "truck", bucket == "vehicle" GOOD, guess == "vehicle", bucket == "truck" BAD)

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

Intel's CEO: 'We are not in the top 10' of leading chip companies

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intels-ceo-we-are-not-in-the-top-10-of-leading-chip-companies.html
1•davidst•4m ago•0 comments

How a US mission to push a deal in Congo unravelled

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-us-mission-push-trump-deal-congo-unravelled-2025-07-11/
1•petethomas•5m ago•0 comments

I think we did it: we built the first automation generator, wrapped around n8n

https://alpha.osly.ai/login?from=%2F
1•hez2000•5m ago•0 comments

Am a strictly dominant lady seeking for who to be my Submissive

2•mistressgabby•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do accelerators/VC track internal operations across startups?

1•swaptr•7m ago•0 comments

Modulation of Heat Shock Proteins Levels in Health and Disease

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/14/13/979
1•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/business/mitch-kapor-mit-degree-bill-aulet/
1•bookofjoe•9m ago•1 comments

All Trains in the USA are vulnerable to wireless RF command injection

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-191-10
1•neilwillgettoit•9m ago•2 comments

A deep dive into deeply recursive Go

https://mattermost.com/blog/a-deep-dive-into-deeply-recursive-go/
1•jupenur•10m ago•0 comments

Things I Learned Building an AI Tool After the Hype

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/hitting-2m-arr-in-two-years-even-though-he-was-late-to-the-ai-party-zC8I9EvIpANvyntOTDzk
1•hansjan•10m ago•0 comments

The Empire of Intelligence: OpenAI's Power Map

https://newsletter.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/the-empire-of-intelligence-openai-s-power-map
1•handfuloflight•11m ago•0 comments

Potential Danger to Satellites from a 2032 Lunar Impact by Asteroid 2024 YR4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11217
1•bikenaga•12m ago•0 comments

Billionaire Math

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20250711
3•avinassh•12m ago•0 comments

Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/climate_change_datacenters/
1•rntn•14m ago•0 comments

I still care about the code

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/i-still-care-about-the-code.html
1•mpweiher•15m ago•0 comments

A Mental Model for C++ Coroutine

https://uvdn7.github.io/cpp-coro/
1•uvdn7•16m ago•0 comments

Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results

https://blog.engora.com/2025/06/english-football-data.html
1•Vermin2000•16m ago•0 comments

Hilbert spaces, Ricci traces: the singularity we should attend to

1•glitchprince•16m ago•0 comments

jank Is C++

https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07-11-jank-is-cpp/
1•Jeaye•17m ago•0 comments

Bay Area biotech co Jasper Therapeutics drug mishap leads to layoffs

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bay-area-biotech-company-layoffs-drug-mishap-20765300.php
2•randycupertino•18m ago•0 comments

Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD

https://btxx.org/posts/openbsd-router/
2•Bogdanp•18m ago•0 comments

Get My SaaS to "Go Viral"

1•chany2•19m ago•0 comments

Spec Engineering and the New Code – Sgrove from OpenAI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rABwKRsec4
1•dhorthy•21m ago•1 comments

Wacky history of Computer Scrabble [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP90knHlYqc
1•indrora•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free app to estimate calories burn based on MET

https://burnmeter.swimpeaks.com
1•bacdor•22m ago•0 comments

Air India Probe Puts Early Focus on Pilots' Actions and Plane's Fuel Switches

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/air-india-crash-probe-fuel-cut-3a711f39
1•cebert•24m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What makes an AI system an "agent" vs. just software with if-then logic?

1•Jimmc414•25m ago•1 comments

Pythonic Guardrails for MCP Servers

https://github.com/codeintegrity-ai/tramlines-gateway
1•coderinsan•26m ago•0 comments

Stop Converting Your REST APIs to MCP

https://www.jlowin.dev/blog/stop-converting-rest-apis-to-mcp
2•cicdw•27m ago•0 comments

Subnautica studio co-founder says he's suing parent company Krafton

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/subnautica-studio-co-founder-says-hes-suing-parent-company-krafton-153412484.html
1•jtanderson•30m ago•0 comments